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	Jock Haston - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Haston was a member of a small group of members of the Communist Party of Great Britain who moved towards Trotskyism in the late 1930s after splitting with the CPGB in 1934.
		Haston was also a member of a delegation of the WIL which was sent to Ireland early in the war to prepare a fall back party centre in the event of their being made illegal and having to function underground as had happened to revolutionaries in the previous war.
		Haston opposing this idea while an FI sponsored minority around Gerry Healy was granted permission by the FI to join the Labour Party against the democratically decided views of the RCP in 1947.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Jock_Haston (1427 words)

	jock (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
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		Jock Haston - Jock Haston (1913-1986) was a Trotskyist politician and General Secretary of the Revolutionary Communist Party in B...
	www.serebella.com /search/topic-jock.html (448 words)

	ipedia.com: Jock Haston Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Jock Haston was a Trotskyist politician and General Secretary of the Revolutionary Communist Party in Britain.
		Haston was also a member of a delegation of the WIL which was sent to Eire early in the war to prepare a fall back party centre in the event of their being made illegal and having to function underground as had happened to revolutionaries in the previous war.
		Haston was the last to return from Eire and found himself arrested and jailed as he was travelling on false papers his own having been passed to a comrade evading military service.
	www.ipedia.com /jock_haston.html (1442 words)

	Socialist Standard September 2006 page12 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Among those joining them was the Scottish orator Jock Haston and a voluble Irish militant, Gerry Healy.
		Grant became editor of the RCP's paper, Socialist Appeal, and Grant and Haston were the organisation's first delegates to the Fourth International.
		The RCP existed for three years and grew to 500-600 members, being a thorn in the side of the Communist Party before, in true Trotskyist fashion, internal strife led to decline and a split.
	www.worldsocialism.org /spgb/sep06/page12.html (764 words)

	Jim Higgins: More Years for the Locust (Chap.2)
		Jock Haston had, before joining the CP and later the Trotskyist movement, been close to, although apparently not a member of, the Socialist Party of Great Britain (SPGB).
		Jock Haston, in the cold uncertainty of 1946, basing himself, perhaps, on the proposed Labour nationalisations in Britain, or the drive to state control of industry in Eastern Europe or, because he had reverted, briefly, to the cosy warmth of the SPGB’s line, declared Russia state capitalist.
		On Haston’s part this was less a sign of self denial and more an indication of his intention to remove himself from the fray with the utmost despatch.
	marxists.architexturez.net /history/etol/critiques/locust/chap02.htm (2979 words)

	Revolutionary Communist Party (1944-1949) - Definition, explanation
		When an opportunity for the RCP to stand occurred, the party stood their leader, Jock Haston, in the Neath by-election of 1945, primarily as a protest against the Conservative.
		The leadership of the RCP around Haston was more cautious with regard to declaring these new regimes to be degenerated workers states than the International's leadership around Ernest Mandel and Pablo.
		This grouping of RCPers called itself the Open Party Faction and was increasingly disillusioned with the leadership around Jock Haston and Ted Grant whom they thought to be caving in to Healy's entry group, ultimately leading to a decision to dissolve the RCP in 1950 and join the Labour Party.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/r/re/revolutionary_communist_party__1944_1949_.php (1106 words)

	The Dispatch - Serving the Lexington, NC - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Jock Haston opposed it; Gerry Healy and John Lawrence formed faction which favoured it.
		According to Richard Kuper, with the agreement of both groups, the International Secretariat divided the British section and the minority pursued the entry tactic and published the newspaper Socialist Outlook from 1948.
		Jock Haston immediately dropped out of politics as did much of the remaining leadership.
	www.the-dispatch.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Revolutionary_Communist_Party_(1944-1949) (1099 words)

	History of British Trotskyism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		This time, Haston and Atkinson between them managed to gain a majority, and the proposal was taken to the Central Committee on 8 and 9 December.
		Haston was obviously a broken man. He wasn’t really concerned about the movement any longer; he was only interested in himself.
		The resolution stated that Haston was a renegade and a traitor, and that any member found talking to Haston, or having any relations whatsoever with Haston, would be immediately expelled from the organisation.
	www.marxist.com /history-british-trotskyism-end-era.htm (5947 words)

	Jock Haston
		Jock Haston (1913-1986) was a Trotskyist politician and General secretary of the Revolutionary Communist Party in Britain.
		They also sought and succeeded in recruiting from the declining Independent Labour Party picking up members in the Tymeside region.
		It is licensed under the GNU free documentation license.
	www.ufaqs.com /wiki/en/jo/Jock%20Haston.htm (1391 words)

	History of British Trotskyism - End of an Era - The Last Years of the RCP [Section 1]
		Jock was becoming increasingly disillusioned with the leaders of the International.
		Haston was a giant of a man. I have no qualms about saying this, despite his later abandonment of Trotskyism.
		But Haston, disoriented by the tiredness and ill health that was affecting his judgement, went along with this incredible idea of accepting Healy's leadership at least for a period.
	www.marxist.com /hbt/5-1.html (3641 words)

	Gerry Healy - Chapter 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Turning the factional struggle against Haston and Grant into a caricature of Trotsky’s 1939 polemic against Shachtman and Burnham, Healy seized on the phrase ‘empirical adaption’ to accuse the RCP leaders of renouncing Marxism in favour of empiricism.
		As Jock Haston pointed out, such views were restricted to the Club’s internal discussions: ‘Publicly in the paper it is argued, not by right or left wing Labour Party members but by Trotskyists, that the Labour Party is a socialist party...
		But Haston, demoralised by the failure to build a mass party, began to argue for entry into the Labour Party on a political basis even more liquidationist than Healy’s, a proposal which received the opportunist backing of Grant who, though unconvinced by Haston’s arguments, was unwilling to face the break-up of the RCP’s leading team.
	www.whatnextjournal.co.uk /Pages/Healy/Chap2.html (4281 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Ted Grant
		The former RSL members formed the Workers International League, and Grant was to became its main theoretician after the return of Lee to South Africa and in partnership with Jock Haston.
		The group grew, and in 1941, he became editor of its paper.
		After turmoil in the group, Grant was expelled together with Alan Woods in 1992 after a document allegedly written by their faction emerged which stated that they intended to split Militant and the CWI.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Ted-Grant (1670 words)

	From Vol
		The truth is, as any comrade in the WIL at the time in London is able to affirm, that it was the work of Lee himself, with next to no input by Grant at all.
		The initials appended to the text, those of J R Strachan, were in fact those of Jock Haston's wife.
		Thus on page ix of the preface we are told that 'only Ted Grant' was able to come to terms with the development of the new situation in the post-war world, and on page 82 that the RCP did this `under the theoretical guidance of Ted Grant especially'.
	www.revolutionary-history.co.uk /backiss/Vol2/No2/Unbroken.html (1051 words)

	John Byrne Interview
		But no, I don't think that Healy with Jock and them, again I wouldn't say he was as active or as enthusiastic as Haston and the others, but he played a role, but he didn't stay very long, he came back.
		Jock Haston and Heaton Lee, Ann Keen and Roy Tears and a young fellow Bill Davy was involved in it.
		Heaton Lee, Jock Haston and Ann Keen were arrested and Jock Haston went to address a meeting.
	www.workersrepublic.org /Pages/Ireland/Trotskyism/johnbyrne1.html (5274 words)

	Trotskyism in May 1945: Down with the Churchill Coalition! Labour to Power on a Socialist Programme! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The announcement of the RCP to stand Jock Haston, its general secretary, as its candidate in Neath badly stung the “Communist” Party.
		Haston has come to this election to confuse and split the workers.” He concluded, to the shock of much of the audience: “In Russia they defeated fascism because they shot all the Trotskyists and the Fifth column scum, and if we had our way, these people on this platform would be shot.”
		Haston opened his reply by saying that Thomas’ statement about it not being the CP’s policy to debate with Trotskyists was the only true part of his speech.
	www.socialist.net /content/view/877/27 (3367 words)

	British entyrism 1948-54
		On the one side, the majority around Jock Haston argued against total entry and for frac-tion work subordinated to "independent" RCP work around industrial struggles.
		The majority, led by Haston in conjunction with Ted Grant (later leader of the Militant Tendency and now in his twilight years a figure in the group, Socialist Appeal) saw the source of that in trade union work.
		While still pursuing his faction fight against Haston and Grant, Healy in-sisted to shield his left flank that total entry into the Labour Party would nevertheless be to fight for the programme of the FI.
	www.fifthinternational.org /LFIfiles/Britishentryism2.html (4812 words)

	Letters & Contacts page5 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		A member of the audience (of about 100) got up and forcefully, as well as persistently, much to the annoyance of Grant and the other Trotskyist speakers, and argued that the economy of the USSR was state capitalist, and that the workers and peasants there were exploited in much the same way as elsewhere.
		Shortly after, two of the leaders who were at the meeting, Jock Haston and Tony Cliff, both accepted the claim that Soviet Russia was state capitalist.
		I met Grant and Haston in 1948 at the RCP HQ on the Harrow Road.
	www.worldsocialism.org /spgb/oct06/page5.html (957 words)

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		Already possessing an awareness of class consciousness he was swept up in the maelstrom of political activity which was occurring during the war years in the British shipyard and engineering industries.
		In 1943 the strike on Tyneside, which saw Jock Haston and Roy Tearso imprisoned, quickly spread to the Clyde where many shipyards were brought to a halt.
		Robert worked in Yarrows as an apprentice and became actively involved in the struggle to better the wages and conditions of his colleagues - a battle that had to be fought and refought in ensuing years.
	libcom.org /library/tags/Glasgow (160 words)

	Gerry Healy - Chapter 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		One regular victim of the attentions of Healy and his fellow Stalinists was Jock Haston, who was then a member of the Militant Group, a Trotskyist organisation led by Denzil Harber which worked in the Labour Party.
		When a minority headed by Jock Haston criticised the WIL’s interpretation of the military policy as capitulating to patriotic sentiments in the working class, by portraying the British bourgeoisie as defeatists and the Trotskyists as the true advocates of military victory over Hitler, Healy vigorously defended the WIL’s political line.
		Ted Grant and Jock Haston argued cogently that such a development would arise when workers themselves had tested out their existing organisation and recognised the need for an alternative rank-and-file movement.
	www.whatnextjournal.co.uk /Pages/Healy/Chap1.html (4656 words)

	Gerry Healy
		He soon joined the Communist Party of Great Britain, but then left to join the Trotskyist Militant Group in 1937.
		He then left to become one of the founders of the Workers International League, led by Jock Haston and Ralph Lee.
		Healy's period in the WIL was difficult and he threatened to resign several times and was actually expelled and readmitted.
	www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/g/ge/gerry_healy.html (676 words)

	Modern Political Papers at the University of Hull (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Haston became a Communist whilst a merchant seaman in the early 1930s.
		The RCP failed to make progress over the next few years, and split into factions led by Gerry Healy and others, arguing over the respective benefits of open electioneering and the more traditional Trotskyist tactic of 'entering' the Labour and other parties.
		The Haston archive represents a major source for students of the modern far left in Britain, with important records of the WIL and RCP, including minutes, internal party bulletins, conference documents, broadsheets, memoranda and correspondence.
	www.hull.ac.uk /oldlib/archives/mppapers/haston.html (257 words)

	Ted Grant
		Although Ted was a member of the International Executive Committee, in the early period due to a lack of a British passport, he wasn't able to participate in its work.
		This was left in the hand of Jock Haston.
		As a result, Jock Haston was effectively driven out of the movement.
	www.engels.org /ted_grant/biografia/biografia.htm (3969 words)

	[Marxism] Ted Grant obit
		However, the tiny band of entryists were soon embroiled in one of the rancorous, incomprehensible feuds in which Trotskyite groups have always specialised.
		On the one side were a group of Bloomsbury intellectuals whose main asset was that Trotsky knew who they were' on the other, unknown young men and women mostly from working-class backgrounds, led by a Scottish seaman named Jock Haston.
		WIL influence on Tyneside was a fact, because one of their undercover members was the full-time regional or-ganiser of the Independent Labour Party (ILP), T. Dan Smith, later famous as the corrupt boss of Newcastle City Council.
	lists.econ.utah.edu /pipermail/marxism/2006-August/002085.html (1545 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		For most purposes Cliff was a supporter of the leadership of the RCP around Jock Haston and as such he was involved with the discussions concerning the nature of those states dominated by Russia and the Communist parties initiated by a faction within the RCP.
		This debate was linked to other discussions on the nationalised industries in Britain and the increasingly critical stance of Haston and the RCP as to the leadership of the Fourth International with regard to Eastern Europe and Yugoslavia in particular.
		Cliff developed a version of the theory that Russia and the 'glacis countries' (buffer states), as they were referred to in the Fourth International at the time, were state capitalist.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Tony_Cliff (1239 words)

	Dougal Haston (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Dougal Haston (1940-1977) was a Scottish mountaineer born in Currie, Edinburgh.
		With Doug Scott in 1975, he was the first to climb Mount Everest by the south-west face.
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	www.mispedia.org /Dougal_Haston.html (115 words)

	Australasian Studies at the University of Hull (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Born in Edinburgh in 1913, Jock Haston went to sea at the age of 15.
		Thereafter Haston was involved with a number of groups, primarily the Revolutionary Socialist League and the Workers' International League, which merged in 1944 to become the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP), the official organ of the Fourth International in Britain.
		In his capacity as General Secretary of the RCP, Haston accumulated a wide range of internal party documents and engaged in extensive correspondence with members of other Trotskyist groups.
	www.hull.ac.uk /oldlib/archives/austral/hastonau.html (230 words)

	Entry tactic in Britain 1940s
		It was in this context that the RCP leadership around Jock Haston and Ted Grant tried to orient the group.
		The left turn of the CP, occasioned by the outbreak of the cold war, in the Haston group's view meant that "the prospect of creating in the immediate period ahead, a third independent alternative party of the working class has been undermined".
		The conference never took place, and Healy reduced the now defunct RCP to a tiny conspiratorial cabal of a few dozen - "the Club", whose "Trotskyist" politics were shrouded in secrecy and available only to the privileged few, lest they prove a "provocation" to the left-reformist allies in "Socialist Outlook".
	www.fifthinternational.org /LFIfiles/Britishentryism.html (5731 words)

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